To the Editor of the "Nortu-Crina Dairy News."
Sir,—May I refer to your Leaderette in to-day's paper touching the legitimacy of the use of the word "Britisher?' It was the subject of a correspondence in your columns before, at a date when the Crown Advocate employed it in Court and Sir Havilland de Saumarez descanted upon its etymology. In this connexion I have a very strong impression that, not long after, the term '"Britisher" was employed by the Prince of Wales in one of his public addresses to Canadians. 1 cannot, at the moment, put my finger on that record, but I seem to recall the speech very clearly. Would one of your readers kindly come to my assistance? If the neologism" is duly recorded as recognized in official speeches by the Prince of Wales, then it may surely be considered sufficiently ''polarised" for "Oxford Dictionary" recognizes the term.
1 am, ete., Shanghai, Jan. 4.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.